- Yaacov Lozowick
Yaacov Lozowick (born in 1957 in
Bad Kreuznach ) is anIsrael i historian and writer. Over a period of 14 years he was the director of the Archives atYad Vashem .Education
In 1980 Yaacov Lozowick gained qualifications as a tourist guide. In 1982 he graduated with a Bachelor in
history andJewish philosophy from theHebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). In 1984 he obtained a diploma inpedagogy and in 1989 a Master for ContemporaryJudaism from the HUJI. In 1995 he completed his doctorate for Contemporary Judaism in the HUJI.Professional career
Contemporary Sociology , describes Lozowick as a “long time leftist and peace activist.” [ Politicide Revisited, by Chad Alan Goldberg , Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 229-232 ]In 1990 Lozowick became a teacher of history at the Paul Himmelfarb high school for boys. Between 1986 and 1989 he worked as an instructor of modern
Jewish history inWorld Union of Jewish Students Academy. After being involved in a research project atYad Vashem since 1982 he served there as director of "Seminars for Educators from Abroad" [“The Israel’s Department of Education National Authority for the Commemoration ofthe Holocaust ”] from 1989 until 1993. On the suggestion of the Austrian political scientistAndreas Maislinger he initiated and moderated the first German-language Seminars for Educators from Abroad. [ [http://www.auslandsdienst.at/press/archive/jewishpostintern_23.1.1993.html "Transforming guilt into understanding"] , The Jerusalem Post International EditionWeek, ending January 23, 1993.]From 1993 until 2007 he served as the director of the Archives at Yad Vashem.
Lozowick's 2003
Right to Exist is an attempt to applyJust War theory to Israel's wars. [ Politicide Revisited, by Chad Alan Goldberg , Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 229-232 ]Lozowick blogs at [http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/]
Publications
* "Hitler’s Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security and the Banality of Evil", Continuum, London and New York, 2002, ISBN 0826457118
** Also in German: Hitlers Bürokraten: Eichmann, seine willigen Vollstrecker und die Banalität* "
Right to Exist : A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars", Anchor Books, 2004, ISBN 1400032431Footnotes
ee also
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Right to exist External links
* [http://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem]
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